Fine Tune - Kurzweil FORTE SE Musician's Manual

Keymap and Sample Editing
The Keymap Editor
When the VelRange parameter is selected, you can scroll through available velocity ranges
using the Alpha Wheel or the Previous-/Next+ buttons. Multiple velocity ranges are only
shown if the current Keymap uses more than one velocity range. If the top line of the
EditKeymap page displays VelRange, you can scroll through the available velocity ranges
with any parameter on the page selected using the Channel/Layer/Zone buttons. (Press the
Toggle soft button to toggle the top line between displaying VelRange and KeyRange.)
Low Velocity (Lo), High Velocity (Hi)
Use these parameters to set the velocity range of the current key range. If you extend the
current velocity range into another, the boundaries of the other velocity range will become
shortened to accommodate the velocity range you are extending. If the velocity range you are
extending covers another velocity range, the other velocity range will be deleted.
Coarse Tune
Coarse Tune allows you to transpose a sample for a given range. This is extremely useful
when you have set the Root key of the sample for one note but want to assign the sample to
a different part of the keyboard and still be able to play it without transposition (see Root
Key on page 9-12 for details.) For example, if you originally set the Root key at C4 but
want the sample assigned to C3, you would set Coarse Tune to 12ST, transposing it up one
octave. Now the original pitch will play at C3, one octave down. If you examine the drum
and percussion kit keymaps in ROM, you will see that we have done this. Most of our ROM
drum samples have the Root key set at C4.
There's a short cut for adjusting the Coarse Tune automatically so that the sample plays with
minimal transposition in the assigned key range. See Special Double Button Presses in the
Keymap Editor on page 9-8.

Fine Tune

This gives you further pitch control. Once the sample's pitch is close to the desired note, use
the Fine tune to sharpen or flatten it as much as a half-semitone.
Master Transpose (MasterXpose)
This parameter does not really pertain to the keymap itself. Instead it is identical to the
Transpose amount set with the front panel Transpose buttons or Octav-/Octav+ soft buttons
on the Program and Multi mode select pages. If you change the transpose value here, the
same value will be reflected by the transpose button LEDs as well as in the top bar of the
Program and Multi mode select pages, and vice versa. It transposes the entire instrument
globally. The MasterXpose parameter allows you to easily see the transpose value while in the
keymap editor. It is also useful for assigning samples across the entire keyboard when using a
keyboard that has fewer than 88 notes.
Volume Adjust
Here you can adjust the volume of the notes in the current key range. This enables you to
make each key range play at the same volume even if the samples in the various ranges were
recorded at different volumes.
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